Ecosystems: Praxis Practice

What is all the different populations in a given area alongside the physical environment?

• Community

• Ecosystem

• Biome

• Biosphere

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What consists of all the populations of different species in a given area?

• Community

• Biosphere

• Ecosystem

• Population

What is a group of individuals that belong to the same species?

• Individual

• Population

• Ecosystem

• Community

One type of organism.

• Ecosystem

• Community

• Population

• Individual

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True or False:

The biosphere is all the ecosystems on Earth.

• True

• False

What is the variety of organisms in an ecosystem?

• Biodiversity

• Ecology

• Community

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Carrying capacity is the maximum population size of a species that the environment can sustain.

• False

• True

Which of the following is a difference between food chains and food webs?

• Food chains show energy flow in an ecosystem, while food webs do not.

• Food chains are linear, while food chains are complex.

• Food webs contain both plants and animals, but food chains only contain plants.

• Foods webs separate organisms by trophic level, but food chains do not.

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What is a linear sequence of organisms through which nutrients and energy pass as one organism eats another?

• trophic level

• Food chain

• Food web

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A biome is a community of plants and animals that have common characteristics for the environment they exist in.

• True

• False